Explore Rhode Island’s trout-stocked water: the Wood, Pawcatuck, Hunt and Pawtuxet rivers and the other stocked streams, the Beaver River’s catch-and-release water, the fly-fishing-only ponds and the stocked ponds, with this year’s stocking dates, public land, fishing access and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Rhode Island's own data and can be out of date. Posted signs and landowners' wishes come first, and private land needs permission. The rules that apply are in the Rhode Island freshwater trout waters and rules, and you need a valid fishing license.
Bold where the stream crosses public land; faint and dashed across private land. Gauges are measurement stations; a nearby gauge may be on a different stream.
Stream types · Rhode Island
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Rivers and ponds are RIDEM’s trout-stocked waters as mapped on RIGIS. Ponds are shown as points. The latest 2026 stocking date comes from RIDEM’s stocking updates page, copied when the map was built; the page itself has the current list.
The Beaver River from the Pawcatuck up to the New London Turnpike is catch and release. The Falls River from the Austin Farm Road bridge about two miles down to the bridge off Brook Trail is catch and release too; it isn’t drawn separately because that bridge isn’t in the road data. The Wood River between Route 165 and Barberville Dam has a two-trout limit from the second Saturday in May.
Deep Pond (Exeter), A.L. Mowry Pond and Upper Rochambeau Pond (Handy Pond) are fly fishing only. Check the current regulations before fishing.
Highlighted banks adjoin mapped open-access public land, with a roughly 20-meter bank tolerance. Dimmed water has no adjacent open-access parcel recorded in this source. Neither determines legal entry, rights of way or permission to cross private land. Check signs, property rules and the current fishing regulations.
Access markers are source facility locations within about 800 meters of mapped water, not verified parking spaces or guaranteed entry to a particular reach. River-gauge readings describe the gauged location; a nearby gauge on another stream is shown as context.